of representatives and will it be enough of a compromise, that enough republicans can vote for it, to get through the house? i put that at 50-50. >> chris: byron, the most we can say, or will be ale to say if congress passes something is they were able to stop the crisis, that they created, in the first place. but, they will have done nothing, i mean, it is really quite astonnishing to deal with the debt problem which is what the crisis was supposed to be about and, in fact, if you extend the bush tax cuts for 98, 99% of americans, and you have just these small, automatic spending cuts, you actually increase the deficit, by trillions of dollars over the next decade. >> that's right, they are only dealing with the most immediate problem and by immediate i mean the next 48 hours. and where we are is exactly where we knew we'd be months ago, which is republicans are about to give in on their long held position that you shouldn't raise taxes on anybody, the only question is, is it above 250, 400, 500? and, the reason they are doing it is, they know if they hold it up, past january 1, the first bill t
